No matter how much we analyze differences between left and right, the question that divides us now is: what motivates people who hold power? Let’s not listen to what they say motivates them. Let’s ask: what do government’s actions say about what motivates people who hold power?

Government grants funds when a majority favors it. The same government can remove those funds when the original majority disappears. Republicans currently hold a majority in the nation’s legislature. If Hillary Clinton declares she is sick of Republican efforts to reduce federal funds for abortions, she may as well say she is fed up with democracy.

Was the U. S. attack on the hospital in Kunduz deliberate? The more the Pentagon says, the more you think the answer is not that important. The Pentagon says that we cooperated with our Afghan friends to target a building that turned out to be a hospital. If the aim of such a statement is to exonerate yourself, you’re not making much headway with that line of thought.